[Mageia-dev] qt3-devel needed for Trinitydesktop (KDE 3.5 successor)

Fri Mar 25 13:05:31 CET 2011

nicolas vigier wrote:
+> On Fri, 25 Mar 2011, Tux99 wrote:
+> 
+>>
+>> Quote: nicolas vigier wrote on Fri, 25 March 2011 12:08
+>>
+>>> Because we want to be sure that nothing is built on this library.
+>> So you are arbitrarily making life harder to people like Xavier and
+>> myself.
+> 
+> And you want to arbitrarily make life a lot harder to people who want
+> to make sure the distribution is not based on obsolete and unmaintained
+> software.
+> 
+> On the other hand, rebuilding a qt3 package yourself takes a few
+> minutes.
+[...]
+> You're building other software, but you can't rebuild a qt3 package
+> yourself ?
+> 
+
+Sorry but I can't agree here: when I build a software, I like to build 
+_just_ the software, not the whole system around! (I would use a Gentoo 
+otherwise).
+I loved Mandriva because of this point: it was at the same time simple 
+to use AND full of resource to build and customize specialized applications.
+
+If you are on this way, you can also remove QCad*: yes it is old, 
+unmaintained and based on QT3 - but still the best free 2D drawing 
+software on Linux ...
+
+As a user, I still use applications which needs qt3 and with no 
+equivalent based on QT4 ; so I would like qt3-devel to be included in Mageia
+
+I can't see the point in not including packages just because they are 
+unmaintained. They are still used and useful + you have people who want 
+to package them, so ?
+
+Thanks for reading me,
+Xavier
+
+* maybe it is already removed from Mageia, I didn't checked. But I think 
+I can find a lot of other example of obsolete & unmaintained software 
+but still useful which were in Mandriva (eg xmms).
+